In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?